Well shoot. I can help, but I don't have a lot of time to devote at the moment. I think the first item is to make a list of all the data that should be collected and the operations that should be performed. Then they should be prioritized and worked on in that order.
A volunteer!! Great !! :)
Ok, a starting point could be the new Settings class (in the core package). It will contain all settings for Cocoon (like work directory etc.) - this is not finished yet, but can already used as a base to implement something.
Not that I know a lot about it but.... maybe it would be worth having a look into jakarta commons modeler?
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/modeler/
cheers -- Torsten
